Word: lawns
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...April 29, 1977, approximately 100 students gathered on the lawn in front of Lamont Library to urge Harvard to sell its holdings in South African companies due to apartheid. The students marched through the Yard and onto Mass. Ave, chanting, “Hey hey what do you say, down with minority rule today...
...property. "That had some neighbors pretty pissed," says Clem Gregurek, 69, a former Boeing employee whose house is next to Ridgway's. "He was one of those quick, hyper people," says Gregurek. "He was nervous. He was fast in everything he did. He was even fast mowing the lawn." Before moving to Auburn, Ridgway lived in Des Moines, Wash., only a few minutes' drive from the strip. He went around to his neighbors pointing out that prostitutes were turning tricks on their street. His complaints prompted police to increase patrols of the area. Last November, when news of his frequenting...
...Before the dispute erupted, few had even heard of the company. Boto's main business is manufacturing artificial Christmas trees and lawn furniture, operations that last year accounted for practically all of the company's $116 million in revenue. Three years ago, David Webb, who makes his living researching and investing in overlooked Hong Kong companies and is also a self-styled stock-market watchdog, saw Boto as a buy. On his website (webb-site.com), Webb recommended the stock because of its solid growth prospects?revenue grew 19% last year?and for its conservative managment team that, said Webb...
...even funny, but it is not easy to watch. When Robert finally breaks the news, the moment is raw, discomfitingly private yet strangely mediated: we eavesdrop from the vantage point of the therapist, brought in to coach Robert, who is listening Cyrano-like over headphones on the front lawn of the Lanza house. Nicholas is overwhelmed by tears and confusion--he wants his mom back, he wants a new mom, he wants to go to the local dollar store, he wants to pray, he's afraid of dying. And yet within moments he collects himself and consoles his grandmother...
Charlie Fitzgerald, 41, the CEO of an executive-training organization in Las Vegas, has two daughters, ages 13 and 15, and a stepdaughter, 13. He carpools his daughters to school in the morning, plays ball on the lawn with them some evenings and frequently takes them out for family bowling nights. Fitzgerald, who played a year of pro football with the San Diego Chargers, says some of his fondest memories are of the old days, when his girls were little. "I've been down on the floor playing with Barbies with them," he says. "I just...